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R^3: Real space
You scored 63% abstraction, 43% shape, 51% quantity, and 48% structure! You are Cartesian space. Distance and size has meaning to you, and you ( Read more... )

If anyone in the Seattle area has the blood type AB, as I do, you may be interested in a program at Fred Hutchison which I've been participating in for about 3 years. Every two months, they send out a call to people on their AB donor list for blood. This blood is used in the laboratory to grow T cells for leukemia, HIV, and bone marrow treatments ( Read more... )

There are some terms and phrases which bother me. I'm curious about whether my perspective is shared by anyone I know. If you don't share my perspective, what is yours? Are there any terms not on my list which bother you ( Read more... )

I currently (and in the past) define intelligence as the ability to absorb, organize, and communicate information. Recently, while auto-irritated, I mentioned that I should imitate intelligence. This is why ( Read more... )

If I made the following changes, I'd feel less like I am a waste of life ( Read more... )

the headline in the linked article!

http://www.maconareaonline.com/news.asp?id=11484

Though the specifics routinely change, people have embraced concepts of fairness in competition, creating rules and expected consequences for rule-breaking. Rules may sometimes even extend to personal conduct outside of competitive arenas. Due to technological advancement and market development, these rules often require adjustment ( Read more... )

Fractal city design

I sat on the bench in the Westlake bus tunnel, reading Eight Little Piggies by Stephen Jay Gould. Several minutes passed. A woman, fair of form, walked by and said, "Hi." To this I replied, "Good morning," and she sat next to me. My neck craned to read the lettering on her book's spine - "Regression Therapy". Instantly I wondered whether the ( Read more... )